Artist	Song
John Mayer	Bold As Love
from Continuum (2006)
Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble	Little Wing
from Discover Further: Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble (2007)
Seal	The Wind Cries Mary (Non-Album Track)
from Newborn Friend (2003)
Rod Stewart	Angel
from The Best of Rod Stewart (1998)
Red Hot Chili Peppers	Fire
from What Hits? (2006)
The Cure	Foxey Lady
from Three Imaginary Boys (2008)
Derek & The Dominos	Little Wing
from Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs (40th Anniversary Version) [2 Part Deluxe Edition] [Remastered] (2011)
Pretenders	Room Full of Mirrors
from Get Close (Remastered) (2007)
Emmylou Harris	May This Be Love
from Wrecking Ball (2008)
Rickie Lee Jones	Up from the Skies
from Pop Pop (1991)
Living Colour	Burning of the Midnight Lamp
from Super Hits: Living Colour (1998)
Kenny Wayne Shepherd	I Don't Live Today
from Trouble Is... (2005)
Sting	Little Wing
from Nothing Like the Sun (1987)
Devo	R U Experienced
from Shout (2009)
Gil Evans	Crosstown Traffic
from Plays the Music of Jimi Hendrix (2002)
The Jeff Healey Band	Angel
from Legacy: Volume One - the Singles (2009)
Dick Dale	Third Stone from the Sun
from Calling Up Spirits (1996)
Jamie Cullum	Wind Cries Mary
from Twenty Something (2009)
John Lee Hooker	Red House
from Don't Look Back (2007)
Chaka Khan	Castles Made of Sand
from Funk This (2007)
Yngwie Malmsteen	Spanish Castle Magic
from The Yngwie Malmsteen Collection (1992)
Todd Rundgren	If 6 Was 9
from Faithful (2005)
Joan Jett & The Blackhearts	You Got Me Floating
from Good Music (1986)
Styx	Manic Depression
from Big Bang Theory (2005)

Comment:

Nobody can ever out-Jimi Jimi, so those who dare to take on one of his cuts better make their cover an [i]experience[/i]. At age 80 — yes, you read that right — John Lee Hooker strips "Red House" of its psychedelic plumage and wrings every last scrap of sweat-drenched soul from its blues-burdened heart. What Stevie Ray Vaughan clips out of "Little Wing" — the vocals — leaves him space enough for a shotgun-shack marathon of jaw-dropping jamification, nearly [i]tripling[/i] the song's length in the process. Even though Jimi died just days before his scheduled collaboration with the Gil Evans Orchestra, Miles Davis' former arranger soldiered on, scorching the studio with a [i]habañero[/i]-hot reimagining of "Crosstown Traffic," its horns blaring at Mach 2 down the Jazz Fusion Expressway. And as long as we're in the who'da-thunk-it zone, check out Styx's 'roid-raging, de-wimpifying tear through "Manic Depression." But that's not all — from Seal to Sting, from Patti Smith to the Red Hot Chili Peppers, your favorite artists discovered that Jimi's pen was every bit as mighty as his guitar.

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